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World Bank Issues Policy Paper 'At the Edge of Risk: Assessing Mongolia's "Plausible Worst-Case" Scenario'
WASHINGTON, May 15 (TNSLrpt) -- The World Bank issued the following report (No. 11370) on May 4, 2026 by Migle Petrauskaite, Hector Pollitt and Xinru Lin entitled "At the Edge of Risk: Assessing Mongolia's "Plausible Worst-Case" Scenario." Here is the abstract: * * * This paper develops a plausible worst-case scenario for Mongolia in which three major disasters--a sudden collapse in coal exports to China, a prolonged dzud (severe winter disaster), and a severe flood in Ulaanbaatar--occur in   more